shewbread — Showbread Show bread , n. (Jewish Antiq.) Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

shewbread — /shoh bred /, n. Judaism. the 12 loaves of bread placed every Sabbath on a table in the sanctuary of the Biblical tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering by the priests to God. Ex. 25:30; Lev. 24:5 9. Also, showbread. [1530; SHEW +… … Universalium

shewbread — or showbread noun Etymology: translation of German Schaubrot Date: 1526 consecrated unleavened bread ritually placed by the Jewish priests of ancient Israel on a table in the sanctuary of the Tabernacle on the Sabbath … New Collegiate Dictionary

shewbread — Bread made without yeast. Instructions are given in the OT (Lev. 24:5–9) for twelve [[➝ Twelve, the]] loaves of unleavened bread to be placed in the Temple as an offering to the Lord. On the Sabbath the priests renewed them, consuming the old… … Dictionary of the Bible

shewbread — n. twelve loaves of bread placed every Sabbath in the Tabernacle and in the Temple in Jerusalem as an offering to God (Biblical) … English contemporary dictionary